Their only strangle hold on me is LR gives me the best fine detail at extreme crops. This was the only reason I stayed with it. I don't have the big lenses so I have to rely on cropping. There was a bit of a challenge at FM between C1 and LR with an extreme crop and I know what I liked better. When I can find a match or better then I will reconsider.

I still have 7.1 and I'm on a 4 GB single core MacBook Air. I have not really noticed anything detrimental editing the last few days. I will go to 7.2 when I get home on the big machine and see. I did follow Adobe's recommendations to optimize LR and made changes to the way I set things up.

By now it will be slowing down to point of lagging badly when using brushs to point of being unuseable for commercial work.. Its not hard and fast either when it happens or which systems are better or worse to run this test on .

And this example I gave above is not a heavy develop edit example for many people. Its just a normal edit for myself if Im are doing things like prortraiture, Wildlife ( especially birds) etcetc.

Jason C wrote in post #18568678LR has been going downhill since version 3...

jason

I've been using Light room since version 3, and your claim is strange to say the least. While new functionality from version to version has been somewhat sparse, each new version performs better than the previous one.

digital paradise wrote in post #18568820Their only strangle hold on me is LR gives me the best fine detail at extreme crops. This was the only reason I stayed with it. I don't have the big lenses so I have to rely on cropping. There was a bit of a challenge at FM between C1 and LR with an extreme crop and I know what I liked better. When I can find a match or better then I will reconsider.

I still have 7.1 and I'm on a 4 GB single core MacBook Air. I have not really noticed anything detrimental editing the last few days. I will go to 7.2 when I get home on the big machine and see. I did follow Adobe's recommendations to optimize LR and made changes to the way I set things up.

In my experience, the fine detail from DXO Photolab for extreme crops is far better, at least on raw files from my 7D Mark II

mwsilver wrote in post #18569035I've been using Light room since version 3, and your claim is strange to say the least. While new functionality from version to version has been somewhat sparse, each new version performs better than the previous one.

From my LR usage and experience, each successive Version from V.3 has both increasingly run sluggish and taxed my increasingly upgraded computers. That, too me, is a downgrade.

Jason C wrote in post #18569073From my LR usage and experience, each successive Version from V.3 has both increasingly run sluggish and taxed my increasingly upgraded computers. That, too me, is a downgrade.

Your mileage may vary.

jason

Yep, that is valid. My experience is much different than yours but each of us may do things in different ways. Having said that I hardly use Lightroom any more since I've started using DXO Photolab Elite which for my purposes gives me much better results in far less time.

Then a few local edits with brush tool to edit selected areas that global cannot fix without wrecking other areas1. dodge and burn in selected areas to fix highlights and shadows 2-3xtool brush2. Sharpen selected area like birds eye or human eye with the addition of some minor local noise reduction 2x brush tool4. Minor dust heal or clone edit 2xbrush tool5. If landscape maybe some graduated highlight adjustment using graduated tool for sky etc . 1x Graduated Filter Tool6. Adjustmment of individual color like blue for sky or green for trees etc etc

By now it will be slowing down to point of lagging badly when using brushs to point of being unuseable for commercial work.. Its not hard and fast either when it happens or which systems are better or worse to run this test on .

And this example I gave above is not a heavy develop edit example for many people. Its just a normal edit for myself if Im are doing things like prortraiture, Wildlife ( especially birds) etcetc.

When I have time I will post a video showing how bad this module is .

I was having a very similar experience until I increased the cache size from the default 1GB. The difference for me was night and day. Try it, it might help.

Every time you view or edit raw images in the Develop module, Lightroom generates up-to-date, high-quality previews. It uses the original image data as its foundation, and then updates the preview for any processing or adjustments that have been applied. The process is a little faster if the original image data is in the Camera Raw cache. Lightroom checks the cache for the original image data and can skip early stage processing if the image data is cached.

By default, Lightroom sets the Camera Raw cache to 1 GB. If you increase the cache size, it can store more image data, which in turn speeds the generation of previews of those images. Some Lightroom users find that increasing the Camera Raw cache to 20 GB or more can dramatically speed performance in the Develop module. To increase the Camera Raw cache size, do the following:

Every time you view or edit raw images in the Develop module, Lightroom generates up-to-date, high-quality previews. It uses the original image data as its foundation, and then updates the preview for any processing or adjustments that have been applied. The process is a little faster if the original image data is in the Camera Raw cache. Lightroom checks the cache for the original image data and can skip early stage processing if the image data is cached.

By default, Lightroom sets the Camera Raw cache to 1 GB. If you increase the cache size, it can store more image data, which in turn speeds the generation of previews of those images. Some Lightroom users find that increasing the Camera Raw cache to 20 GB or more can dramatically speed performance in the Develop module. To increase the Camera Raw cache size, do the following:

In the Camera Raw Cache Settings area, experiment with a Maximum Size of 10.0 GB or more.

yes I heard that could be an issue so a couple of weeks ago I raised my cache yet again from 20 to 40Gig. Still no change

BTW I ALso heard that disabling plugins may help because even though they may not be active they are scanned by the system. That has helped marginally however not enough to stop the serious lagging etc when the previous posted edit conditions are in play.

mwsilver wrote in post #18569037In my experience, the fine detail from DXO Photolab for extreme crops is far better, at least on raw files from my 7D Mark II

I have not done any direct comparisons of crops between PL and LR for this, but I was very happy with the crops I created using PhotoLab recently -- both with my 7D2 and 5D3.

BTW, I created a support ticket with DxO to see if it was possible to globally delete all photos tagged as rejected, as can be done in Lightroom. DxO support confirmed this was not currently possible, but the support analyst did say he would send my suggestion to the development team for consideration in a future upgrade.

Scott M wrote in post #18569647I have not done any direct comparisons of crops between PL and LR for this, but I was very happy with the crops I created using PhotoLab recently -- both with my 7D2 and 5D3.

BTW, I created a support ticket with DxO to see if it was possible to globally delete all photos tagged as rejected, as can be done in Lightroom. DxO support confirmed this was not currently possible, but the support analyst did say he would send my suggestion to the development team for consideration in a future upgrade.

I love Photolab but there are a number Lightroom's features l wish they would add. I also like the feature rich Lightroom Print module. Lightroom's interface and options seem a little bit more mature and sophisticated then Photolab's, but you've got to love Photolab's ease of use and end results.

I'm looking forward to the integration of the NIK software in the next version.

Jason C wrote in post #18569073From my LR usage and experience, each successive Version from V.3 has both increasingly run sluggish and taxed my increasingly upgraded computers. That, too me, is a downgrade.

Your mileage may vary.

Whenever I've looked into LR performance issues it's always (as a software engineer) given me the gist that they have a large legacy code base, with some likely not that well understood legacy functions.

I've seen too many reports over the years from people (sometimes with really high end systems) finding that LR crawls for some operations; with no one seemingly able to explain why, or fix it.

In general it works OK for me (I have the last standalone version, LR6), but I've never bothered upgrading my graphics card to something more powerful as I've not got much confidence it'd work better, and it would be entirely possible I made it worse.

sploo wrote in post #18570022Whenever I've looked into LR performance issues it's always (as a software engineer) given me the gist that they have a large legacy code base, with some likely not that well understood legacy functions.

It seems that way. They have a hard time fixing bugs. Some are carried forward to new version after new version. For example, sometimes renaming a file causes one or more photos to appear quite blurry. This bug has been around for many years. The workaround is to restart the program. Hopefully you do this before culling photos that look unsharp because of the bug.

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